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27 September 2014

The commander of the Turkish Land Forces, General Hulusi Akar, went to the Syrian border to inspect the preparations of his troops, as reported by the newspaper Hürriyet.
During his intervention at the 69th UN General Assembly, president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemned the wait-and-see policy of (...)

In Syria, US not targeting Islamic State but oil installations

27 September 2014

The United States, along with members of the GCC, has been bombing Syria for two days, ostensibly to destroy the Islamic State.
The strikes have mostly impacted Raqqa, from where the IS had already cleared out [2], and 12 oil refineries.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (...)

United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council bomb unknown targets in Syria

25 September 2014

On September 23rd, the US and some members of the GCC (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Qatar) bombed terrorist targets in Syria.
The stated goal aim was to destroy the Islamist State’s centers of command.
The strikes were, for the most part, launched from the (...)

The case of the Islamic State’s Turkish hostages

25 September 2014

According to the Turkish daily Hürriyet, the 49 Turkish hostages of the Islamic State (including the consul general of Mosul and soldiers belonging to the Special Forces) - who have been just released after 101 days of captivity - were supposedly exchanged against members of the Islamic State, (...)

Global opium and heroin production explodes

16 February 2014

Poppy cultivation reached an unprecedented historical peak in 2013, surpassing the record of 2007-08, said Yuri Fedotov, director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
375 tons came from Afghanistan, while 50 tons originated from Myanmar and (...)

Beijing to extend air defense zone

16 February 2014

The United States has stepped up its warnings to Beijing, as the latter prepares to expand its air defense zone in the South China Sea, at the risk of creating a conflict with Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia.
On 23 November 23, Beijing already extended its air defense area in the East (...)

European Commission seizes frozen Syrian assets

16 February 2014

The European Commission announced having "freed up" Syria’s frozen assets, in order to fund the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons.
This unilateral decision runs counter to the OPCW resolution, adopted 15 November 2013, which highlights Syria’s financial inability to pay for their (...)

Beijing and Taipei engage in « diplomatic » relations

16 February 2014

Beijing et Taipei, representing the Chinese communist and Nationalist parties respectively, have engaged in their first negotiations since their historical split, in 1949.
Each party considers itself historically as the sole ruler of the whole of China.
However, during the Cold War, Taiwan (...)

Iran’s two military policies

13 February 2014

For the first time, the Hassan Rohani government has decided to dispatch a destroyer and a helicopter carrier towards the U.S. maritime border.
This display is in response to the deployment of the U.S. fleet offshore the Iranian coast.
However, the Iranian response is pure media posturing. (...)

Contras free own hostages in Homs

10 February 2014

The Contras freed 83 women, children and old people, whom they had held hostage in the old town of Homs (formerly known as Emesa). They were entrusted to the Syrian Red Crescent, in accordance with a cease-fire negotiated by the United-Nations.
A second group should be released Sunday. (...)

Syria now a "matter of homeland security" for US and EU

10 February 2014

The interior ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States met in Krakow on 6 February 2014.
The main topic on the agenda was how to deal with jihadists returning home from Syria.
While the governments of these six countries had facilitated, in 2011, (...)

France world champion of Twitter censorship

10 February 2014

In 2013, Twitter received 352 removal requests, of which 306 emanated from the French authorities, in other words 87%.

Lebanese Army forgoes 3 billion dollars worth of French weapons

10 February 2014

On 29 December 2013, during the visit of French president François Hollande to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia had unexpectedly pledged to foot a bill of 3 billion dollars for French weapons intended for Lebanon. However, on 6 January 2014, the Chief of the Lebanese Armed Forces, General Jean Kahwaji, (...)

Maidan activists trained by NATO in 2006

7 February 2014

A group of young Maidan Square protesters, members of the Nazi organization Ukrainian People’s Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO), were trained in NATO terrorist camps in Estonia, in 2006.
The training included manufacturing and handling of explosives, as well as shooting.
These young people went to (...)

Fake images in Ukraine

7 February 2014

The images of a naked Ukrainian prisoner in the snow, surrounded by police forces taunting him, have spread around the world. They show the brutality of the regime that the glorious activists of Maidan Square are trying to overthrow.
There is only one problem: at the end of the footage, Andrei (...)

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